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Face me now, bitch!
#332726: Oct 8th 2020 at 9:55:25 AM

If it wasn't obvious that Joe Biden's lead on Trump was growing in terms of National polls, then Him being on the cusp of 10 points above trump makes it even clearer now.

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Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#332727: Oct 8th 2020 at 9:55:31 AM

So it looks like the push isn’t to so much scrap the second debate as delay both debates.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#332729: Oct 8th 2020 at 10:06:06 AM

How much delay can there be for both debates? The election is in less than a month.

Edit: Oh, that's how.

Scuttlebutt from Hacks on Taps: Apparently Trump has only bought ads in Florida up till October 16th.

Edited by Parable on Oct 8th 2020 at 10:06:37 AM

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#332730: Oct 8th 2020 at 10:09:11 AM

edit: nvm.

Edited by Draghinazzo on Oct 8th 2020 at 2:12:07 PM

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#332731: Oct 8th 2020 at 10:25:12 AM

Biden is selling fly swatters with his campaign logo and a play on his "Truth over Lies" line, "Truth over Flies."

Biden has sold out of fly swatters.

Edited by Parable on Oct 8th 2020 at 10:25:40 AM

ITNW1989 a from Big Meat, USA Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#332732: Oct 8th 2020 at 10:27:07 AM

God damn that was fast.

Hitokiri in the streets, daishouri in the sheets.
Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#332733: Oct 8th 2020 at 10:30:37 AM

That would be a great fly swatter no matter what the context is. grin

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DavidMerrick from Ottawa, ON Since: Jun, 2018
#332735: Oct 8th 2020 at 11:19:55 AM

Apologies in advance for linking directly to a Trump tweet, but he posted another rambling video this afternoon from what would appear to be the south lawn of the White House, but the more I look at it the more I'm convinced he's in front of a green screen.

Please someone tell me if I've gone full Tinfoil Hat on this, but honestly what the hell.

Edited by DavidMerrick on Oct 8th 2020 at 2:21:38 PM

TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#332736: Oct 8th 2020 at 11:27:14 AM

[up] That's just a rambling sale-pitch akin of a drugged up hooker in a street-corner, in debt, and stopping any car they can see, begging for money...

Trump is down on all fours and desperately licking the feet of his base to get votes. This much is obvious.

While being an narcissist about it and zero self-respect whatsoever. Non-stop lying.

That video was just outright disgusting, even by his standards...

(Also, I too got the feeling of green-screen going through it. What was the weather in Washington when this video was made?)

Edited by TitanJump on Oct 8th 2020 at 8:29:51 PM

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#332737: Oct 8th 2020 at 11:36:57 AM

That really does look like a greenscreen, yes. The background is changing slightly (the trees), but it doesn't really look like a natural shifting.

It's been fun.
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#332738: Oct 8th 2020 at 12:15:40 PM

How sad is it that not even Trump has approached the levels of sadness of "Please clap"

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
DavidMerrick from Ottawa, ON Since: Jun, 2018
#332739: Oct 8th 2020 at 12:19:22 PM

SwiftOnSecurity thinks it might be a combo of a telephoto lens and video compression rather than actual green screen, so I'm afraid I did go full corkboard Charlie for a second, but man how bad is your video production team when shooting on the White House lawn looks like chroma key.

ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#332740: Oct 8th 2020 at 12:20:26 PM

So apparently Trump is trying to rush out $200 Medicare Prescription cards to seniors before the election - to my knowledge, this has not gone through Congress, so I have to ask - is this even legal?

Edited by ironballs16 on Oct 8th 2020 at 4:17:54 AM

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#332741: Oct 8th 2020 at 12:39:11 PM

$200 doesn't seem like a lot to me, in this context.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#332742: Oct 8th 2020 at 12:43:50 PM

That's about a cup of coffee due to healthcare costs exploding under...Trump.

"Here's a card to buy a few pills."

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#332743: Oct 8th 2020 at 12:46:21 PM

Its laughably desperate attempt to win back the old people vote,he truly is desperate

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#332744: Oct 8th 2020 at 12:47:50 PM

So first Michigan arrests Vote Intimidating Republicans, then Michigan gets the FBI to help them arrest a literal armed militia who was trying to overthrow and kill the Michigan Government?

If I lived in Michigan right now, I'd be terrified that the state for the next Couple of years is gonna be a hotbed of Right-Wing Terrorism.

This is one of those things where I suspect where I live warps my perspective.

I feel like that Krill in Orville being told that there were some krill showing a suspicious amount of interest in the holy books.

Captain: "Isn't that...good?"

Because the police going after Right Wing nationalists is so rare it makes me feel happy.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Ingonyama Since: Jan, 2001
#332745: Oct 8th 2020 at 12:51:33 PM

NVM (gah, how did I miss this was already posted?)

Edited by Ingonyama on Oct 8th 2020 at 12:52:45 PM

BrainSewage from that one place Since: Jan, 2001
#332746: Oct 8th 2020 at 12:54:13 PM

[up][up]Well, I imagine they'll at least give a shit when the intended victim is the one signing their paychecks.

Edited by BrainSewage on Oct 8th 2020 at 2:54:25 PM

How dare you disrupt the sanctity of my soliloquy?
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#332747: Oct 8th 2020 at 1:12:14 PM

Regarding the question of how serious Trump’s condition was/is, one thing to keep in mind is so-called “VIP-syndrome”, the tendency for extremely important patients to get more aggressive treatment (often to their detriment) than an average patient, which is in part due to the VIP/their families pressuring doctors to do SOMETHING, even when there isn’t a clear reason to think it will help the patient. Trump is absolutely the kind of person who I could see falling into that.

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
MichaelKatsuro Since: Apr, 2011
#332749: Oct 8th 2020 at 2:55:38 PM

A gambling site I keep checking went from giving you 2,1 times the money for a Trump win two weeks ago to 2,75 times the money today.

Boston Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
#332750: Oct 8th 2020 at 3:02:51 PM

^ ^ Was that the "matter of national importance" the FBI said they'd be announcing earlier this week?


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